On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Vye <v...@vye.me> wrote: > Hi Tomcat users,
Tomcat 6.0.20 is very old and has known security issues. See the notices here. https://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html You’ve been warned. You should upgrade ASAP. > > I have been unsuccessfully trying to remove the date from catalina’s > log file name. My ultimate goal is to logrotate the file, which is > best done when the file name is static. I’m curious, why are you trying to do this? The log files are being rotated out-of-the-box. They rotate by date, hence why the date is part of the name. Why do you need to rotate them with some other tool? What doesn’t work about the out-of-the-box configuration? Dan > According to the FileHandler > javadoc ( > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/juli/FileHandler.html > ) I should be able to configure > *.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.rotatable in > ${catalina.base}/conf/logging.properties to toggle date based file > names, but that is not working. > > It seems like I could fix this by using log4j but I'm not sure if the > application is logging directly to JULI or commons-logging. > Regardless, I do not have access to modify it. I would like to > continue to use the default JULI logger since it is already in use. > Judging by the docs what I'm trying to do should be possible. > > I’m positive the logging.properties file is being read because when I > change the prefix and suffix they are applied upon restart. I’ve > pasted my logging.properties and sample output in this gist: > http://git.io/99qidw Anyone can wget the raw logging.properties and > download tomcat from the archives to reproduce. > > I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right > direction. I’ve been referencing > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html. > > Tomcat version: http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.20/bin/ > > Thank you. > > -- > -Vye > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
